Senior Android Engineer (Fable Core)

About the role

The Senior Android Engineer on the Fable team will help shape the future of reading, working on Fable, a successful app that helps people build a reading habit, find their next book, and connect with other readers.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-quality Android experiences.
• Collaborate with product, design, QE, and engineers to deliver features that are performant, intuitive, and visually polished.
• Strengthen the app’s architecture and performance.
• Contribute to technical direction, helping evolve Fable’s Android foundations and development best practices.
• Partner with other engineers to improve code quality, test coverage, and release reliability.
• Participate in code reviews, mentorship, and design discussions to help the team grow and move cohesively.
• Champion a user-first mindset, grounding technical decisions in how they enhance the experience.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Android development with a strong track record of building and shipping high-quality consumer apps at scale.
• Write clean, maintainable Kotlin code and have deep experience with Jetpack Compose, Coroutines/Flows, and modern Android architecture patterns such as MVVM or MVI.
• Have a keen eye for usability, accessibility, and performance, and care about the craft of building intuitive, beautiful interfaces.
• Thrive in cross-functional collaboration, communicating early and often with product, design, and QA partners to align on goals and tradeoffs.
• Take ownership from concept to release and value long-term thinking over short-term fixes.
• Enjoy mentoring, knowledge-sharing, and helping the team move as a cohesive unit.
• Care deeply about the users; understanding what makes Fable impactful in their daily lives and translating that empathy into the features you build.
• Keen to apply AI coding tools to increase development velocity, and automate various parts of the software development process.

Qualifications

• Experience improving app reliability, load performance, or crash metrics in large-scale Android apps.
• Exposure to Firebase or similar authentication frameworks, and subscription-oriented flows.
• Proficiency applying agentic / AI coding tools to Android development is a big plus.

Skills

• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive and generous benefits package, including:

• Scribd Flex (flexible work model)
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• Mental health support and disability coverage
• Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick time, holidays, winter break, volunteer time, and sabbaticals
• Paid parental leave and family support benefits
• Retailment matching and employee equity
• Learning and development programs and professional growth opportunities
• Wellness and home office stipends
• Complimentary access to the Scribd, Inc. suite of products
• Enterprise access to leading AI tools